Florida State's indoor practices something Fisher could get used to

Jimbo Fisher and the Florida State Seminoles were forced to… (ASSOCIATED PRESS )

December 27, 2010|By Andrew Carter

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — All this indoor practice time might start making Jimbo Fisher jealous. Fisher has long desired an indoor practice facility at Florida State. Maybe kind of like the one his team practiced in here on Monday.

The Seminoles moved indoors for the second consecutive day in preparation for the Chick-A-Bowl. After practicing in the Georgia Dome on Sunday, Florida State worked out here at the Atlanta Falcons training facility about 45 miles north of Atlanta.

"All it is is a barn," Fisher said of the Falcons' modernized, climate-controlled facility. "I mean, it's not complicated."

Even so, the projected cost of such a "barn" at Florida State is more than $17 million.

-QB Christian Ponder made it through his second bowl practice without suffering any setbacks to his right arm, Fisher said.

"I think his body's more sore than his elbow is sore," Fisher said. "It's his body. He hasn't done nothing in a month … I think that was the biggest thing, just getting the soreness out from practice."

Asked if Ponder had been medically cleared to play Fisher said, "He's playing … I cleared him."

-Former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden will speak today at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes breakfast which is being held in the Seminoles' team hotel. Florida State players and coach Jimbo Fisher are expected to attend the event.

It will be the first time Bowden will have spoken to his team since the university forced him to retire at the end of the 2009 season.

-Florida State and South Carolina on Monday both visited the Martin Luther King Jr. historical site in downtown Atlanta.